Civil-rights attorney and television celebrity Ben Crump will host TV One's new series on wrongly convicted men and women.

The one-hour show, "Evidence of Innocence," chronicles four people arrested and jailed for crimes they didn't commit before being freed. The first episode airs 10 p.m. tonight and will be shown every Monday in June.

TV One is owned by Urban One, Inc. — the largest black-owned, multi-media company targeting black and urban audiences.

"The show is unlike anything on TV in the criminal reenactment legal genre," Crump said in a phone interview while traveling from Los Angeles.

Crump said the show's definition of success aligns with its pursuit of the truth, noting thousands of Americans are imprisoned for crimes they didn't commit. Each person featured in "Evidence of Innocence" served at least a decade behind bars.

"Unfortunately, the highest percentage of those people are black people, particularly black men," he said, adding the show highlights the behavior of police investigators and prosecutors. "You will see the prosecutors and police don't always do the right thing."

This is the latest show featuring Crump, a Florida State alum known for working on racially charged cases.

He represented the families of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old shot in February 2012 in Sanford by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman; Michael Brown, an 18-year-old shot and killed in August 2014 by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri; and Alesia Thomas, a 35-year-old woman who died after being kicked and hit by an L.A. police officer. All three were black.

Crump's celebrity stock continues to rise following appearances in several crime programs, including "Who Killed Tupac?" on A&E and "You the Jury" on FOX.

Rushion McDonald, a television and film producer whose work includes The Steve Harvey Show, is the executive producer and creator of "Evidence of Innocence" in partnership with Jupiter Entertainment. The show is a direct result of national headlines chronicling racial injustice in the justice system.

“As attorney Crump says, all you have to do is sit in the back of a courtroom and you’ll see that justice is not equal in this country," McDonald said in a statement. ”Evidence of Innocence, however, with its stirring tales of perseverance, is different from any other true crime show ... Even though these persons received the blunt end of a bad deal, their stories are inspiring.”

Crump will continue to trumpet his message of justice for all in future shows, including a six-week documentary on Trayvon Martin produced by rapper-turned mogul Jay-Z. It airs on the Paramount Network this summer.

These shows, Crump said, help educate people about the injustices common in "courtrooms across America every day."

"I'm trying to impact the larger society about these larger matters so they can be aware when they go into the courtroom as jurors," said Crump. His actions are inspired by legal legend Thurgood Marshall, who pursued cases capable of contagious change.

"It's such an important show to spark conversation," Crump said.

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